As a first step for this task, we identified the genes that are consistently highest associated with COL11A1. Additional file 4 shows a listing of genes in nine cancer data sets, while Table 4 shows an aggregate list of the top 100 genes ranked in terms of their association (mutual information) with COL11A1. The list is similar to the phenotype-based gene ranking (Table 2). The gene discussed is COL11A1; the disease is cancer.